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I asked an AI agent to drop a video into a blog post while I was on the train home. It broke my site instead. I found out at 4am.

The old me would have blamed the tool. This time I opened GitHub, read what changed, rolled back to the last working version, and then looked at my own instruction. Vague, sent at 10pm, reviewed by nobody.

Version control is the boring thing that saved me (and I still barely understand it).

Have you had one of these nights?

3 seconds. 3 mistakes. Did you catch all of them? (Most people get 1, maybe 2.)

One's an accessibility fail. One's a spacing gap nobody can name but everyone can feel. One's a font weight doing nothing it's supposed to do.

Save this and check your own file next.

I skipped Opus 5 when it came out. I said just another model, and I did not think it would change much for me.

I finally gave it a real task (with a purpose) this morning instead of a random generic tutorial. I wanted a component library like the ones I taught in design school. Every resource I have seen shows you the anatomy of a button or an input, but skips the reasoning. Why this padding. Why this state. The industry logic that never gets written down… Perhaps I will be adding frequently asked questions from our community 02UI Labs.

25 components, explained properly, HTML output included. Still building it (but almost done), but even though it is the first version it’s way better than I expected.

I could not have given this same brief to Fable 5. It would burn through tokens even on the max plan before getting halfway.

The link is in the comments! Enjoy 😉

2 weeks ago we posted a video about Figma’s latest updates. Someone commented: “Figma is so behind in the AI game.”

I’ve been designing for 24 years. Figma is a design tool. That’s the whole sentence. It doesn’t need to become an AI tool to stay useful to me.

And I’ve criticised Figma before, about agents, about gaps I wanted filled. That hasn’t stopped me for a second.

Here’s what I actually do. I connect Figma to Claude Code through Figma’s MCP server. I tell it: use my design system, build the dark version of this screen. It reads my components, my styles, my structure, and it builds.

That’s me using the tool the way it’s built, and adding the layer I need on top.

So tell me. Is Figma really behind, or did we just expect the wrong tool to solve the wrong problem?

My design system now lives in 3 places. Figma, GitHub, and a single HTML file I can open in a browser.

I built a small design system in Figma, then ran an audit on it with Fable 5 to find what I had missed. Components after that. Standard stuff.

The part that changed my week: I exported it as a DESIGN.md file and an HTML page, so the system lives in Figma, in GitHub, and in a browser tab.

Then the blog post needed research charts. I was going to design them one by one. Instead I handed the whole system to Claude Design and kept writing my own copy (the writing still had to sound like me).

Results are in the article, link in bio.
If you have a better way of doing this, tell me in the comments. I will read every one.

The design skill that survives every tool panic.

In 2018 the whole industry moved from Sketch to Figma in about 6 months. Before that it was the template panic. Every time, the same shape. Everyone panics, then designers find the thing that keeps them useful.

Now it is AI. Same story, more volume.
So here is my question, and I want a real answer in the comments, not a like. What is the underrated thing that matters today and will still matter in 5 to 10 years?

I wrote my answer in a blog post and made a video about it on the 02UI channel. But I want to read yours first.